ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Rances Ulices Amaya, 23, aka “Murder” and “Blue,” was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiring to commit sex trafficking of a child and three counts of sex trafficking three girls. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge Read More »
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Orlando Garcia, 33, of Corpus Christi, Texas, has been convicted by a federal jury of drug trafficking in a conspiracy that involved gang leadership both inside and outside of the Texas prison system, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The jury returned its guilty verdict just a short time ago Read More »
RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that DARNELL WILLIAMS, age 26, of Syracuse, pled guilty on February 8, 2012 in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to an indictment which charged him and 13 others with conspiring to exploit their membership in the Bricktown Gang to engage in a pattern Read More »
23-Year-Old with Multiple Convictions had Loaded, Stolen Handgun in Glove Box of his Car MONROE EZELL, 23, of Seattle, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Officers discovered the loaded, stolen Glock .45 Read More »
Additional Charges Include Robbery, Assault, Illegal Use of Firearms and Related Crimes A superseding indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn this morning charging seven members, associates and leaders of the violent Brooklyn street gang “Six Tre Outlaw Gangsta Disciples Folk Nation,” also known as the “Folk Nation.” The sixteen-count indictment charges the defendants Read More »
“Law Enforcement Agencies Must Be Unrelenting in Our Commitment to Combat Gangs” Baltimore, Maryland – A federal grand jury superseding indictment was unsealed today alleging that a drug gang operating on a stretch of Baltimore Street in Baltimore known as “the Block, ” is a federal racketeering enterprise that committed acts of violence, including murder. Read More »
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Andra G. Green, 24, of Hampton, Va., was sentenced today to a life sentence for the murder of John Henry Green on January 18, 2007, and to a concurrent life sentence for participating in the murder of Demareo Dontae Hardy on March 20, 2009. Both victims were killed during attempted drug Read More »
BOISE – Andres Marcos Trejo, 24, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Boise to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. According to the plea agreement, on October 7, 2010, Trejo sold methamphetamine to another person at his residence, a farmhouse located between Nampa and Melba, Idaho. Read More »
NEWARK, N.J. – A member of the Fruit Town and Brick City Brims set of the Bloods street gang was sentenced today to 105 months for conspiring to murder a rival gang member in April 2009 and illegally possessing firearms, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Samad McCallum, 24, of Elizabeth, N.J., previously pleaded guilty Read More »
WASHINGTON – A Barrio Azteca (BA) gang member pleaded guilty today for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman for the Western District of Texas, FBI Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division Kevin Perkins and Administrator Michele M. Read More »
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